Wells wsa very critical of the Military
He believed that the military was really a joke that doesn’t take war seriously enough.
1. Its use of formation in battle
2. Beliefs in traditional means of war ( artillary, using machines creating better machines to kill better)
3. The use of military traditions and protocal in war where they proved useless.
A good example was the Franco-Prussian War and World War 1 where such ideas were used but just resulted in a longer and more bloody war. ( The Battle of the Somme in France)